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Perhaps the time has come, because everyone can be a doctor, to rely on contributions to the field as an absolute selection criteria leaving the doctorate as simply a box to tick.

you can evaluate a contribution only if you've examined it and are competent to do so.
Academia?
It's like mafia...
Forget about research caliber...everything matters but the actual outcome.
Ward Churchill, Joel Hayward, Norman Finkelstein, David Irving are all cogent examples...
Finkelstein fell from the prominent position of 'well-respected Jewish scholar' to that of apostate and dangerous outcast...his tenure terminated, his character assassinated...
Self-proclaimed part-Jew Hayward saw his career in jeopardy and his publishing agreements in unrelated fields terminated when the public learnt he had published a 'revisionist' M.A dissertation...dissertation he had embargoed himself and never promoted, nor discussed.
Irving is a monster irrespective of any scholarship.
Embarrassing and 'intolerable' 'glitches' were suddenly discovered not only in Churchill's copious opus, but in his own persona as well (an impostor and not an Indian as he claimed )...that five years AFTER he published an unknown pamphlet pushing the 'wrong' ideas...
Is then academic publishing the sanctuary of freedom or rather the offspring of old times' church imprimatur?
People like Hayward were forced to recant...in turn their 'confession' or recantation was used against them as proof their foes had been right all along...
For example Hayward's university refused to terminate his M.A degree because due procedure had been followed...then Hayward recanted so his foes used that confession to argue that the only logic step was to terminate a degree based on premises (dissertation) the very owner then admitted to be *** (sorry, wrong, whatever ) about writing...see?

You'll see scholarly publishing LOOOOOOONG on certain subjects and VERY SHORT or totally lacking on others...
Besides, read ten scholarly 'reviews' of the same item and you may as well find people who extol its virtues to heaven, and others who consider it a wreck...typically along the 'party line' of publishers and authors...